Quality and Safety

How can healthcare finance executives drive value for their organizations? That question will be front and center at the upcoming ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference, sponsored by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

If you're a fan of basketball, you already know of Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski. Attendees of Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2011 ANI: Healthcare Finance Conference in Orlando at the end of June will be treated to a keynote address by the famed coach.

The biggest obstacle healthcare facility administrators and doctors face when forming accountable care organizations (ACOs) is physician alignment, says a new survey by healthcare staffing company AMN Healthcare.

Medicaid managed care plans run by publicly traded, for-profit insurers have higher administrative costs and lower quality of care, according to a brief released last week by the Commonwealth Fund.

The outcry following a New York Times story in May about the nursing home industry trying to get an exemption from the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers offer their employees health insurance continued last week when a number of nursing home advocacy groups sent a letter of protest to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Reducing readmissions is becoming increasingly important for hospitals. In the olden days (and still to some extent now) a readmission was simply a new opportunity to earn revenue on the same patient.

A regional healthcare fraud prevention summit in Philadelphia on Friday brought together a wide array of federal, state and local partners, beneficiaries, providers and other interested parties to discuss ways to eliminate fraud within the U.S. healthcare system.

A Texas sheriff was found guilty this week of retaliating against two registered nurses who had reported patient care concerns about a physician at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit, Texas.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule this week that would establish conditions of participation for community mental health centers (CMHCs).

Blue Shield of California, AllCare Independent Physician Association and Doctors Medical Center of Modesto have announced a three-year accountable care initiative that will serve nearly 8,000 Blue Shield members in Stanislaus County.